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Stevens, ever the showman, returned home determined to heal, his team insisting he remains mobile and upbeat.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>Instead of canceling his moment, he chose to walk through it. Favorites Old &amp; New, his 13-track collection of classics and fresh songs, will still arrive on Friday, turning a health scare into an unlikely backdrop for one more act. For fans who grew up on Everything Is Beautiful and his offbeat novelty hits, the album now feels less like a release and more like a defiant message: he\u2019s bruised, but not finished yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he fall could easily have been a tragic final chapter: an 87-year-old icon, already recovering from a heart attack and two stent procedures, suddenly on the floor&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Country music legend, 87, breaks neck and is rushed to hospital ahead of new album launch - TernaNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ternalnews.info\/?p=51345\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Country music legend, 87, breaks neck and is rushed to hospital ahead of new album launch - 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